LA Pokemon Showdown, senior(13+) finals, part 1

[braydonh007]

I cant wait till the eigtg

[7ay]

Oookay yeah TRoom w/ weavile lead?

[TehAntiheroNinja]

Watching this match at the LA Showdown inspired me to get into competitive battling and form a Rain team. =) Don't get me wrong, zerowing is really good, but Chris' team was pretty original - at that tourney at least. This year it'll probably be different, what with Kyogre and Groudon and all...

[piplypu]

cool

[DeagleBeagle]

yeah no guard working on your allies is just a netbattle glitch I found out

[edroivas]

Your moves are revealed to your opponent? You're playing with Wii Remote data? That's lame, but I guess it prevents disconnecting.

[Mosquitox216]

Actually, I think the event staff had the players "upload" their pokemon from their DS's into 2 different Wiis. Then they fought as if it were two people facing each other over Wifi

[DeagleBeagle]

this is ok but the guy on the right was horrible, but one thing, does anyone know if no guard makes your allies or opponents attacks perfectly accurate? or how it works exactly in doubles, my brother told me it only raises the accuracy of yours and your opponents, not your allies. But then why would so many use champ, dunno.

[milleypup12345]

it makes your opponents aswell and both in a double and not your allies

[Donutttttttttt]

I LOVE how dusknoir is able to twist dimesions from his belly. Wis h I could do that

[RayMkIV]

how do you qualify to be in the top 64?

[DeathKurai]

ît's the best turney off the world!!!^^

[devilducky77]

In 2009 i would love to see this

[MegamanNG]

Wow... this is... incredible.

[Bulbaboi4444]

I'm travelling all the way from the UK to see it LMAO

[earthbend91]

i lost in round 5 :(

[idkai]

The water trainer was quite good. I liked watching him play.

[Whinesilencer]

zerowing sucks

(this is max)

[Knasty93]

OMG i cant wait for tomorrow. I hope i can make it to the top 8 and i want to face the winner.

[ch00b27]

tybalti, stop posting this BS about Smogon. It's clear that your Gamefaqs ignorance is showing. A few things you probably don't know, is that the winner has an account at Smogon and that he was doing a lot of "training" with one of Smogon's best Doubles players. Go back to Gamefaqs and post your thoughts about Smogon there. It's filled with crappy threads so yours will fit right in.

[PokemonBattleBrain]

haha GameFAQs, no wonder he's annoying and not thinking clearly.

and on a side note, congrats tybalti, you are now banned from this video!

have a nice day.

[SengokuMusouRyan]

I pray I can get to the one in New York... I want to challenge the winner...

[SengokuMusouRyan]

or if i'm lucky I can get to battle in the tournament...

[neutron1989]

omg this battle is lame, i want to challenge this guy, its ridiculous, he puts water pokemon trainers in disgrace

[PokemonBattleBrain]

Why does he put them in disgrace if he won quite handily? >_>

[tybalti]

Funny, you didn't seem too impressed with his team based on your commentary in Part 2 of the video. 'Can't believe a mono-rain dance team made it this far' or something along those lines. Is that why you deleted my comment? Smogoners need to lose the self-entitled attitude that they deserve to win and everyone else is 'cannon fodder' in their path. Because IIRC, that mentality didn't play out too well at JAA when the people the site made fun of and ridiculed ended up placing higher or winning.

[illasduck]

he said he couldn't believe a mono team made it to the finals. I was surprised too, but I liked the team.

[PokemonBattleBrain]

rarely do i delete comments, but that one you made before served no prupose and i have every right to delete it.

And I'm not even really from Smogon to be honest. I post there occasionally, but I am not a fledged member of there(at least I don't consider myself to be); so I really wonder why you are even saying that JAA BS in the first place.

[PokemonBattleBrain]

And if you knew anything about competitive pokemon battling you would realize that teams with one type('mono teams') rarely do well. I agree with illasduck, his team was beautfilly constructed, I just was surprised that it made it to the finals and won. he had a good strategy, executed it correctly, and won because of it. If you had read smogon's philosophy, you would understand better.

and yes, go back to watching the anime and your 'water trainers'.

[PokemonBattleBrain]

also please don't comment again unless you have something a bit more relevent to this video to say instead of useless comments like 'Smogon elitists loolololo".

[darkmaster491]

By the way, with that team... Chris actually made it to the top 4 of the showdown at Florida. His strategy was going so well in the battle that he lost, but his opponent had some luck hax that turned the battle in his favor. Every little thing in a battle has good potential to change it drastically.

[darkmaster491]

Ok, about mono type teams... That's not entirely true. If you have the proper strategy to go with it, you can win most of your battles (even against type disadvantages). I'm the Dark Master, a mono type trainer myself, and I've actually had more problems with Steel/Psychic types than with Fighting types, ironically. And Fighting type teams are ALSO very powerful (more of in single battle) since they consist mostly of sweepers. And yes, I agree that Chris' team was beautifully constructed.

[illasduck]

this is pokemon you dumbshit. the only thing disgraceful here is how ridiculous you're acting about a child's game, lol.

also I'm pretty sure he's not a 'water trainer' or anything queer like that. just a player with an effective strategy that just so happens to rely heavily on water type Pokemon.

go back to watching anime.

[Rinsting]

Sweetness. I've been to one of these, and was allowed to participate in the 13+ Group.

[era404]

I have not seen a lot of "Surf" used by battle like this.

[PokemonBattleBrain]

yes, it seemed that the majority of his moves were Surf and Protect. but he was able to win that way, so whatever works for him I suppose.

[SengokuMusouRyan]

I knew the Smogon guy was gonna lose for some reason... I think I found the winner's strategy out...

[amanberry077]

Good going. But you shoulda x2ed speed.

[dekablue25]

aint that nice.but congratz now will be waiting next week to see who wins at NYC.

[illasduck]

So, did each finalist have their own personal monitor?

If so, how in the world did that work out? Also, did they get to see each other's rosters before the match?

[PokemonBattleBrain]

There were two TVs facing the audience, and a TV facing each contestant. Each audience TV had each side's moves shown, etc, so it was like the right TV was zerowing's special screen, and the left was 'Hal''s special screen. They could see everything that was going on(what moves he would be using, who he was switching to etc). they did it wifi and not local wireless.

And yes, they saw each other's team before the match. they just saw four and chose four. ;)

[kankurosand0]

nice PBB

[ch00b27]

Stupid Dynamic Punch glitch, zerowing may have won if it wasn't for that. Congrats for making top 8 PBB. This is BlueCookies btw.

[Phallustein]

I will beat you in New York.

[dekablue25]

lets see who will beat wh

[Phallustein]

I can tell you right now. I can't wait for an adorable cookie-cutter Smogon-fag team :3

[dekablue25]

and i bet hackers so not relaly a point anymore

[Phallustein]

Haha. what?

[Pulse010]

Heh, first view. I had a Rain Dance team that I planned on using if I got accepted. Maybe I would've gone just as far. ;P who knows.